Usmor
Usmor
The continent that lies on the north pole of the planet of Tarris Six.
It is extremely cold on this continent and extremely dark, and this same darkness and extremely deep chill covers the continent for several months out of the year.
The continent of Usmor is about as far as one can get from modern and welcoming civilization without also finding the essential end of the world in the process.
It is a large continent with a rough crescent shape sitting on one side of a large sea which is known as The Veridian Abyss, bordered by another landmass that is smaller than the first. This abyss is also closed in on all sides and is only accessible through two small openings between the two islands, one in the south and one in the north, both of which are only a mile or two wide at their greatest point. They are also much more shallow than the rest of the sea, sitting at roughly only one-hundred-fifty feet deep or thirteen stories deep at the greatest point. The open sea inside by comparison is several thousands of feet deep, and due to the residue found at the bottom by sonar scans and the like, it is believed that the sea had once been exposed to the surface before being destroyed and sunken under the surface of the water many millions of years ago. It had once been a very lush and thick woodland survived with towering, thick trees and deep greenery, but due to the sinking, the forest has since been destroyed by the cold flood waters that have also frozen the remains at the bottom.
To navigate Usmor is a far more dangerous undertaking than many may believe. It is a very large biome covered in sheer ice faces, rocky plains stuffed with cracks and fissures, large expanses swathed in towering daggers of ice and snow, as well as countless ranges of steep hills and mountains that litter the surface around almost every corner of the continent. There are two known regions of Usmor as labelled and charted by maps and other methods, these being the lower lands of Usmor called The Endless Valley, which is the area of Usmor that lies closest to sea level, while the rest of the continent rises higher and higher above sea level. The second region of Usmor is known as The Highlands, and is one of the hardest sections to navigate across the continent in order to trek between the two stations that lie on either end of The Highlands. The Highlands also border the most treacherous section of the continent which is covered in thick mountains that are packed closely together and yet almost at random, forming no coherent mountain range but rather just a large cluster of them, which does provide the landscape with a very confusing and dangerous landscape that can only be navigated by the most proficient of climbers and trekkers, even though men and women of that caliber don't come out into the mountains very often, especially for their own safety. The largest of the mountains in this cluster is known as Mount Empyrean, although it is also known more commonly by a second name which is more well-known. This name is Mount Torpor.
The mountain is a staggering thirty-thousand feet high and is second only in height to the central mountain of the continent of Rethium, which stands at well over ten-thousand feet higher or more than Torpor. Torpor itself was first mapped with the discovery of the mountain cluster on Usmor back in the late eighteen-hundreds to early nineteen-hundreds, only a few years after a failed expedition through Freezing Fire Pass, the coldest, deepest and most dangerous part of the continent that lies within a smaller region known as The Southern Fields. It was not until roughly ten years after the Freezing Fire Pass incident that Mount Torpor and it's neighbors were discovered by the team that had trekked for several weeks across the continent to reach their destination, which in and of itself was not Mount Torpor but in fact the edge of the mountain cluster where Torpor was found to lie near the cluster's center. The first two adventurers who managed to reach the top were a Kitsune male and a Human female, named Yuichi "Brave" and Orola Aneraar respectively. The party had consisted of over ten members, but Yuichi and Orola split off to make the ascension on their own to prevent potential losses of their group during the ascension of the mountain. Both Orola and Yuichi managed to return alive from the mountain peak, attributing their survival to the steady conditions and the calm weather that had come over the continent during the majority of their trek through the snowy, icy wilderness over the past few weeks. All members also managed to return alive to the base camp in the Valley, and it was from here on out that Yuichi and Orola made their names in history.
There are several base camps that dot the landscape from the landing site of the first ship to have arrived on the edge of the continent, and they are spread several miles apart due in part to the most favorable locations being found so far apart from one another. In total, there are eleven base camps that trek through the wasteland. The first of these is located on the opening edge of a long, wide bay that extends several miles into the continent. The second base camp is located at the end of this bay and is one of the camps that it at the most risk for weather and storm exposure, as the bay is known to channel dangerous weather and storms down the bay and into the small section of land where the second base camp is located. For this reason, the camp was built into the protected side of a small cluster of hills to keep the danger of weather conditions from putting the base camp and it's inhabitants in extreme danger. This same camp is located only a few miles from the longest mountain range on the continent which extends nearly from end to end of the continent from north to south. The furthest base camps set apart from one another are Basecamp Five and Basecamp Six, which are situated far beyond the southeast and southwest openings of the Freezing Fire Pass, each of them by several miles although Basecamp Six is far more distant from the Pass than it's neighbor, Basecamp Five. It was also inside this pass in the year nineteen-oh-five that a large and perilous expedition set out in an attempt to reach the southwestern side of the pass. Some seventy-four men and women, all scientists of various fields and some of the most promising of their time entered the Pass to reach the southwestern side on the seventeenth of February, but by the morning of the eighteenth, every single man and woman in the group would be dead; frozen completely solid by the chill and the marching wall of ice and snow that had been blowing through the pass already for the past few days. Every member of their party including their leader, Alistair Miles Breckenridge. It was a combined mixture of bad timing, no proper preparations being made, an overstaffed crew which could have been downsized to minimalize potential losses, no ready maps to work with, insufficiently established leadership and evacuation plans and other various details that ultimately caused the plan to fail, and many are certain that if Alistair had survived, he would have taken the blame for the losses of every single member of the crew upon his return home. It is thought however that despite the cold and hostile environment that Breckenridge at least died with some semblance of peace in his mind, that although he had lost so much during the trek including himself, that the world at large would soon gain a better understanding of the dangers of the cold wilderness and the perils of fruitless ventures with no preparation and no true sense of leadership, morale or courage that are so common and necessary to guide such an important journey. Over the many years that expeditions have taken place within the icy, forbidden wasteland continent of Usmor, there are known to be more than one-thousand bodies lying dead in the wilderness, all of them scattered across the land. But by far, the largest gathering of these unfortunate souls stands and sits within the icy confines of Freezing Fire Pass. A total count of three-hundred fifty bodies have met their end in this damned hall of ice over the years, but the most legendary and important to history will always be those that had trekked into the Pass on that fateful seventeenth of February, nineteen-hundred-and-five.
The continent that lies on the north pole of the planet of Tarris Six.
It is extremely cold on this continent and extremely dark, and this same darkness and extremely deep chill covers the continent for several months out of the year.
The continent of Usmor is about as far as one can get from modern and welcoming civilization without also finding the essential end of the world in the process.
It is a large continent with a rough crescent shape sitting on one side of a large sea which is known as The Veridian Abyss, bordered by another landmass that is smaller than the first. This abyss is also closed in on all sides and is only accessible through two small openings between the two islands, one in the south and one in the north, both of which are only a mile or two wide at their greatest point. They are also much more shallow than the rest of the sea, sitting at roughly only one-hundred-fifty feet deep or thirteen stories deep at the greatest point. The open sea inside by comparison is several thousands of feet deep, and due to the residue found at the bottom by sonar scans and the like, it is believed that the sea had once been exposed to the surface before being destroyed and sunken under the surface of the water many millions of years ago. It had once been a very lush and thick woodland survived with towering, thick trees and deep greenery, but due to the sinking, the forest has since been destroyed by the cold flood waters that have also frozen the remains at the bottom.
To navigate Usmor is a far more dangerous undertaking than many may believe. It is a very large biome covered in sheer ice faces, rocky plains stuffed with cracks and fissures, large expanses swathed in towering daggers of ice and snow, as well as countless ranges of steep hills and mountains that litter the surface around almost every corner of the continent. There are two known regions of Usmor as labelled and charted by maps and other methods, these being the lower lands of Usmor called The Endless Valley, which is the area of Usmor that lies closest to sea level, while the rest of the continent rises higher and higher above sea level. The second region of Usmor is known as The Highlands, and is one of the hardest sections to navigate across the continent in order to trek between the two stations that lie on either end of The Highlands. The Highlands also border the most treacherous section of the continent which is covered in thick mountains that are packed closely together and yet almost at random, forming no coherent mountain range but rather just a large cluster of them, which does provide the landscape with a very confusing and dangerous landscape that can only be navigated by the most proficient of climbers and trekkers, even though men and women of that caliber don't come out into the mountains very often, especially for their own safety. The largest of the mountains in this cluster is known as Mount Empyrean, although it is also known more commonly by a second name which is more well-known. This name is Mount Torpor.
The mountain is a staggering thirty-thousand feet high and is second only in height to the central mountain of the continent of Rethium, which stands at well over ten-thousand feet higher or more than Torpor. Torpor itself was first mapped with the discovery of the mountain cluster on Usmor back in the late eighteen-hundreds to early nineteen-hundreds, only a few years after a failed expedition through Freezing Fire Pass, the coldest, deepest and most dangerous part of the continent that lies within a smaller region known as The Southern Fields. It was not until roughly ten years after the Freezing Fire Pass incident that Mount Torpor and it's neighbors were discovered by the team that had trekked for several weeks across the continent to reach their destination, which in and of itself was not Mount Torpor but in fact the edge of the mountain cluster where Torpor was found to lie near the cluster's center. The first two adventurers who managed to reach the top were a Kitsune male and a Human female, named Yuichi "Brave" and Orola Aneraar respectively. The party had consisted of over ten members, but Yuichi and Orola split off to make the ascension on their own to prevent potential losses of their group during the ascension of the mountain. Both Orola and Yuichi managed to return alive from the mountain peak, attributing their survival to the steady conditions and the calm weather that had come over the continent during the majority of their trek through the snowy, icy wilderness over the past few weeks. All members also managed to return alive to the base camp in the Valley, and it was from here on out that Yuichi and Orola made their names in history.
There are several base camps that dot the landscape from the landing site of the first ship to have arrived on the edge of the continent, and they are spread several miles apart due in part to the most favorable locations being found so far apart from one another. In total, there are eleven base camps that trek through the wasteland. The first of these is located on the opening edge of a long, wide bay that extends several miles into the continent. The second base camp is located at the end of this bay and is one of the camps that it at the most risk for weather and storm exposure, as the bay is known to channel dangerous weather and storms down the bay and into the small section of land where the second base camp is located. For this reason, the camp was built into the protected side of a small cluster of hills to keep the danger of weather conditions from putting the base camp and it's inhabitants in extreme danger. This same camp is located only a few miles from the longest mountain range on the continent which extends nearly from end to end of the continent from north to south. The furthest base camps set apart from one another are Basecamp Five and Basecamp Six, which are situated far beyond the southeast and southwest openings of the Freezing Fire Pass, each of them by several miles although Basecamp Six is far more distant from the Pass than it's neighbor, Basecamp Five. It was also inside this pass in the year nineteen-oh-five that a large and perilous expedition set out in an attempt to reach the southwestern side of the pass. Some seventy-four men and women, all scientists of various fields and some of the most promising of their time entered the Pass to reach the southwestern side on the seventeenth of February, but by the morning of the eighteenth, every single man and woman in the group would be dead; frozen completely solid by the chill and the marching wall of ice and snow that had been blowing through the pass already for the past few days. Every member of their party including their leader, Alistair Miles Breckenridge. It was a combined mixture of bad timing, no proper preparations being made, an overstaffed crew which could have been downsized to minimalize potential losses, no ready maps to work with, insufficiently established leadership and evacuation plans and other various details that ultimately caused the plan to fail, and many are certain that if Alistair had survived, he would have taken the blame for the losses of every single member of the crew upon his return home. It is thought however that despite the cold and hostile environment that Breckenridge at least died with some semblance of peace in his mind, that although he had lost so much during the trek including himself, that the world at large would soon gain a better understanding of the dangers of the cold wilderness and the perils of fruitless ventures with no preparation and no true sense of leadership, morale or courage that are so common and necessary to guide such an important journey. Over the many years that expeditions have taken place within the icy, forbidden wasteland continent of Usmor, there are known to be more than one-thousand bodies lying dead in the wilderness, all of them scattered across the land. But by far, the largest gathering of these unfortunate souls stands and sits within the icy confines of Freezing Fire Pass. A total count of three-hundred fifty bodies have met their end in this damned hall of ice over the years, but the most legendary and important to history will always be those that had trekked into the Pass on that fateful seventeenth of February, nineteen-hundred-and-five.
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